Ivytech fall 2013

Yay!!!!!! My classes start tomorrow!!!! I'm spazzing with excitement, anxiety, and I have a very terrible superiority complex I need to overcome that I hope is nipped in the bud sooner, rather than later. F***k taco vs trali, Allen's test, and Other such things... Lets relearn it all NCLEX style. Example: pt presents with CP. Grab cardiac markers first, then obtain EKG (not other way around like the real world). Woot! Bring it, Nursing school part 2/3!!

(Part 1: LPN, Part 2: ADN, part 3: BSN)

Lady at the Lafayette office said letters were being mailed out this week.

Did you get your letter yet???

Does anyone else suffer from anxiety regarding the notion of being only an ASN RN?

Does anyone else suffer from anxiety regarding the notion of being only an ASN RN?

My only anxiety is whether or not I'll be accepted. As far as being ASN, I am planning on going on for BSN so no anxiety there.

hi vineda did you apply to the gary campus??? I applied with a very low score but keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm having panic attacks as of late. Severe, emotional attacks. IU health doesn't want new ASN grads and says if u are an ASN, you must obtain a BSN within five years. In addition, IU has done away with evening shift differentials.

This past Thursday, St. Vincent has declared a mass lay off citing ACA and an unexpected lower # of procedures performed this year/last year and thus a severely depressed income.

That leaves Community and Wishard; both of which are expected to be rid of their evening shift diff at a later date as to follow the IU precedence- bc really: why would an employer continue to pay based upon an outdated 8 hour shift basis when most employees work 12 hours. By cutting the 3pm-11pm shift diff, the organization is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now the 7a-7p shift earns base pay without diff, but the 7p-7a shift earns base pay for the first 4 hours and only getting a diff at the last 8 hrs, thus saving the organization insane money.

I am so worried that when I'm finally an RN, I will lose all opportunity to work in an environment of my choosing, make the money I expect, and be regarded as an RN with a lesser ability to "critically think".

Now most of this is not a rational fear (for myself since I'm of the last LPN generation to be hired by my hospital and thus WILL be hired as an ASN RN by my hospital per my managers), but among those new grads without experience as a nurse, I greatly dread and fear for what is to come. I am terrified to think of all those ASN RNs without experience being forced into LPN positions and the LPNs who will be denied positions bc the RN was hired in at an LPN rate while being forced to take more duty on board. Yes, with the market becoming exceedingly saturated with nurses it only makes sense that the LPNs be done away with, ASN RNs become new LPNs and BSN RNs take over all acute care environments. No longer will there be a difference based upon license, but rather upon degree.

I'm typing from my phone and this is becoming tedious. I have so much more to add but it is all my own personal fears, Fears expressed from an LPN getting an ASN in a hospital environment. I will only be an LPN but instead my tag will say ASN RN and now when ppl see me they will no longer ask, "what is an LPN?", they will ask " what is an ASN?" I'm still going to live in a shadow of inferiority until I obtain a BSN.

This inferiority complex is enough to drive one's self into a severe emotional depression.

iT SURE DOES!

Libran which campus did you apply to?

Libran which campus did you apply to?

I applied to 11 different campuses (6 diff regions). I was accepted into all of them with a 79 on the TEAS V and a B in AnP 102- All A's in the rest.

I'm attending Lawrence.

Same here grade and Teas wise, I am not so patiently to hear from South Bend I've been on the Ivy Tech forums and half the campuses don't seem to have sent them yet, mainly the larger ones. Are you already in the program?

My LPN-RN started this week already. My medic co-workers have applied also to do their transition and were told to expect letters after 6/15

I'm having panic attacks as of late. Severe, emotional attacks. IU health doesn't want new ASN grads and says if u are an ASN, you must obtain a BSN within five years. In addition, IU has done away with evening shift differentials.

This past Thursday, St. Vincent has declared a mass lay off citing ACA and an unexpected lower # of procedures performed this year/last year and thus a severely depressed income.

That leaves Community and Wishard; both of which are expected to be rid of their evening shift diff at a later date as to follow the IU precedence- bc really: why would an employer continue to pay based upon an outdated 8 hour shift basis when most employees work 12 hours. By cutting the 3pm-11pm shift diff, the organization is saving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now the 7a-7p shift earns base pay without diff, but the 7p-7a shift earns base pay for the first 4 hours and only getting a diff at the last 8 hrs, thus saving the organization insane money.

I am so worried that when I'm finally an RN, I will lose all opportunity to work in an environment of my choosing, make the money I expect, and be regarded as an RN with a lesser ability to "critically think".

Now most of this is not a rational fear (for myself since I'm of the last LPN generation to be hired by my hospital and thus WILL be hired as an ASN RN by my hospital per my managers), but among those new grads without experience as a nurse, I greatly dread and fear for what is to come. I am terrified to think of all those ASN RNs without experience being forced into LPN positions and the LPNs who will be denied positions bc the RN was hired in at an LPN rate while being forced to take more duty on board. Yes, with the market becoming exceedingly saturated with nurses it only makes sense that the LPNs be done away with, ASN RNs become new LPNs and BSN RNs take over all acute care environments. No longer will there be a difference based upon license, but rather upon degree.

I'm typing from my phone and this is becoming tedious. I have so much more to add but it is all my own personal fears, Fears expressed from an LPN getting an ASN in a hospital environment. I will only be an LPN but instead my tag will say ASN RN and now when ppl see me they will no longer ask, "what is an LPN?", they will ask " what is an ASN?" I'm still going to live in a shadow of inferiority until I obtain a BSN.

This inferiority complex is enough to drive one's self into a severe emotional depression.

IU bloomington has not done away with evening shift diffs. My mom is an RN on med/surg and still gets shift diff. But yes IU you have to already have your BSN or get it within 5 years of employment or your gone. My mom had to sign that with them and she has been with them for almost 2 years but she was already working on her BSN when she was hired so she didnt care. Any LPN's that already work at IU have to have their RN within 5 years too.